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If I give up my smartphone can I have some economic democracy?
@eeyam Appreciated the ironmongery
The people who complain against lefties using the tools of capitalism are some of the same people who complained about Native Americans using rifles to defend themselves.
@eeyam Well, the pitchforks probably never kept the peasant under constant surveillance in order to make sure that the pitchforks will never be really dangerous to the feudal landlord.
@eeyam is it ok to resist capitalism by buying the new iphone every year?
@eeyam Your iPhone was designed by workers and assembled by workers from parts made by workers using tools built by workers
The only part of the process that has to do with capitalism is the one where a meddling deadweight tells the workers how to work and decides how much to charge you and how to pay them to keep as much value for himself as possible,
so you end up paying more for a worse product and the workers work more bitterly for worse pay
I use an iPhone, but purely to keep this handed-down device out of a landfill. I will never be giving Apple a cent of my money. :)